Bikramjit Basu & Dhirendra S. Katti 
Advanced Biomaterials [PDF ebook] 
Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications

Foreword (by Prof. Larry L. Hench) ix
Preface xi
Contributors xv
About the Editors xxi
SECTION I
1 FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOMATERIALS AND BIOCOMPATIBILITY 3
Bikramjit Basu and Shekhar Nath
2 FUNDAMENTALS OF HYDROXYAPATITE AND RELATED CALCIUM PHOSPHATES 19
Racquel Zapanta Le Geros, Atsuo Ito, Kunio Ishikawa, Toshiro Sakae, and John P. Le Geros
3 MATERIALS FOR ORTHOPEDIC APPLICATIONS 53
Shekhar Nath and Bikramjit Basu
4 THE MICRO MACROPOROUS BIPHASIC CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CONCEPT FOR BONE RECONSTRUCTION AND TISSUE ENGINEERING 101
Guy Daculsi, Franck Jegoux, and Pierre Layrolle
5 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATED TITANIUM DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEMS 143
Yoshiki Oshida and Elif Bahar Tuna
6 INJECTABLE HYDROGELS AS BIOMATERIALS 179
Lakshmi S. Nair, Cato T. Laurencin, and Mayank Tandon
7 NANOMATERIALS FOR IMPROVED ORTHOPEDIC AND BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS 205
Lijie Zhang, Sirinrath Sirivisoot, Ganesh Balasundaram, and Thomas J. Webster
SECTION II
8 INTRODUCTION TO PROCESSING OF BIOMATERIALS 245
Dhirendra S. Katti, Shaunak Pandya, Meghali Bora, and Rakesh Mahida
9 LASER PROCESSING OF ORTHOPEDIC BIOMATERIALS 277
Rajarshi Banerjee and Soumya Nag
10 FUNCTIONALLY GRADED ALL CERAMIC HIP JOINT 323
Omer Van der Biest, Guy Anné, Kim Vanmeensel, and Jef Vleugels
11 MEDICAL DEVICES BASED ON BIOINSPIRED CERAMICS 357
Pío González, Julián Martínez-Fernández, Antonio R. de Arellano-López, and Mrityunjay Singh
12 IONOMER GLASSES: DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION 411
Artemis Stamboulis and Fei Wang
13 DESIGNING NANOFIBROUS SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING 435
Neha Arya, Poonam Sharma, and Dhirendra S. Katti
14 DESIGN OF SUPERMACROPOROUS BIOMATERIALS VIA GELATION AT SUBZERO TEMPERATURES–CRYOGELATION 499
Fatima M. Plieva, Ashok Kumar, Igor Yu. Galaev, and Bo Mattiasson
SECTION III
15 BIOMATERIAL APPLICATIONS 535
Ashok Kumar, Akshay Srivastava, and Era Jain
16 CELL-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES AND BIOMOLECULES FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING 551
Michelle Ngiam, Susan Liao, Casey Chan, and S. Ramakrishna
17 ORTHOPEDIC INTERFACE TISSUE ENGINEERING: BUILDING THE BRIDGE TO INTEGRATED MUSCULOSKELETAL TISSUE SYSTEMS 589
Helen H. Lu, Kristen L. Moffat, and Jeffrey P. Spalazzi
18 CELLS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION 613
Carlos Atico Ariza and Surya K. Mallapragada
19 PLACENTAL UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD: A TRUE BLOOD SUBSTITUTE 643
Niranjan Bhattacharya
20 SUPPORTED CELL MIMETIC MONOLAYERS AND THEIR BLOOD COMPATIBILITY 663
K. Kaladhar and Chandra P. Sharma
21 TITANIUM NITRIDE AND DIAMOND LIKE CARBON COATINGS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR APPLICATIONS 677
C.V. Muraleedharan and G.S. Bhuvaneshwar
INDEX 707

BIKRAMJIT BASU, Ph D, is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute
of Technology Kanpur. His research interests include ceramic and
polymer-based biocompatible materials, nanoceramics and nanoceramic
composites, and tribology of advanced materials. He received the
Coble Award of the American Ceramic Society in 2008 and was
recognized by the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian
National Academy of Engineering.
DHIRENDRA S. KATTI, Ph D, is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at the Indian
Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interests include
polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, tissue engineering,
and nanotechnology.
ASHOK KUMAR, Ph D, is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur. His research interests include the design of
supermacroporous polymeric materials and smart polymers for
application in tissue engineering, development of cell separation
technology, extracorporeal medical devices, and high-throughput
analysis. His other research interests include bioprocess
engineering, biosensors, and environmental biotechnology.